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PAGE 46—SUNDAY Vanguard, SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 Lagos House holds public hearing on sports SPORTS took the centre stage in the affairs of Lagos, last Friday, as the state House of Assembly held a public hearing and Stakeholders’ Forum to discuss the bills for the establishment of two “important” organs for the development of sports. Besides moving to legitimize the Lagos State Sports Commission through the enactment of an establishing law, the state is also concerned with the issue of adequate and proper funding for sports and has determined to establish the Lagos State Sports Trust Fund to elicit private and corporate contributions. Giving insight on the two •Obasa, Speaker Lagos House of Assembly. Paralympics continued from B/P 12 medals, comprising 8 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals, though one less than the 13 won four years ago, but higher in quality compared to the 6 gold 5 silver and 2 bronze in London. Team Nigeria’s eight gold medals came through Roland Ezuruike, Paul Kehinde, Lucy Ejike, Lauritta Onye Ndidi Nwosu, Bose Omolayo, Flora Ugwunwa and Rohr psyches continued from B/P showdown in Zambia next month,” a top official informed. “He wishes to raise their confidence and self-esteem by this personal contact.” Rohr made his debut with the Eagles during an Africa Cup of Nations clash against Tanzania in Uyo, where the Eagles laboured to a 1-0 win. He said the team was lacking self confidence. However, he is bills, the majority leader of the assembly, Hon SOB Agunbiade who represented the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, declared that the objective is to drive sports “beyond the common standards of excellence” in line with the motto of the house. “We are trying to Josephine Orji, all in the powerlifting event. Other winners are Latifat Tijani and Esther Oyema who got silver medals from powerlifting while Eucharia Iyiazi won bronze medal in discus. In 2012 Nigeria was third behind Tunisia who are now second at the Rio games having won 6 gold, 6 silver and 6 bronze to occupy 20 th position overall while South Africa followed closely as third best African country and 22 nd overall with same 6 gold medals as Tunisia but 5 silver and 4 bronze. hopeful that a good result will lift the team. “The confidence has not been there because the team failed to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations, but when results start to come, the confidence will return,” he said. “It is a difficult challenge (to qualify for the World Cup). Nigeria are not the favourites after we did not qualify for the last two AFCONs, but we hope to be at the World Cup.” Rohr is expected to draw up his list this week. reposition sports in the state. Henceforth, it will no longer be “Eko for show” but “Eko for gold” and this forum has been convened to avail stakeholders the opportunity of contributing to the law making process to accentuate a fundamental tenet of democracy as government by the people. GOtv Boxing Night 9: Jagaban vows to demolish Coded Man SEMIU “Jagaban” Olabode has vowed to floor Ebubechukwu “Coded Man” Edeh when they clash in the national light middleweight challenge contest at GOtv Boxing Night 9, holding on 2 October at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos. Both boxers are making their professional debut after being selected at GOtv Boxing NextGen Search. Edeh came through GOtv NextGen Search 1, while Jagaban was discovered at the second edition of the talent hunt. “I am not called Jagaban for nothing. Coded Man or whatever he calls himself will run for cover and announce himself as Coded Boy. He is a boy, not a man. I am putting him on notice that hell awaits him,” he boasted. But speaking on MiTv’s Sports Update, from which Jagaban was absent, Coded Man said his opponent’s absence was out of fear. “I was hoping we would meet on the programme. He would have had a hint of what he will see in the ring,” said the Anambraborn boxer. Their bout is one of the seven lined for GOtv Boxing Night 9, where the best boxer will go home with a cash prize of N1.5million in commemoration of GOtv’s fifth anniversary in Nigeria and the country’s independence. FC IfeanyiUbah continued from B/P match, Cameroonian midfield maestro Tamen Medrano said he believes IfeanyiUbah are fully focused on getting all three points. “We are fully focused on getting all three points, at this stage of the season we are taking the matches one after the other, we have prepared well this week and I believe we are going to get a positive result on <strong>Sunday</strong>,” said Medrano. ‘The Anambra Warriors’, who are in search of their maiden continued from B/P he has featured in that period. Iheanacho was the match winner for Nigeria in an AFCON qualifier against Tanzania on September 4, before he grabbed the match winner for City in the Manchester Derby. He then netted his first UEFA Champions League goal against German Bundesliga side Borussia Monchengladbach at The Ettihad. In another Premier League game, compatriot •L–R: Larry Ephraim Ettah, Chairman, UPDC Nigeria Plc; Bankole Opashi, MD, Bodyline Fitness & Gym and Hakeem Oguniran, MD/CEO, UPDC Nigeria Plc commissioning the new state-of-the-art fitness centre at Golden Tulip Hotel, Festac , Lagos. CNS swimming championship to expose junior swimmers By Princess Chukwuemeka CHAIRMAN of the Main Organising Committee of the 7th Chief of Naval Staff Swimming Championship, Commodore Suraj Mustapha Bello, has beckoned on Nigerians to reengineer sports from the grassroot level so as to capture young talents who would take NPFL title, have shone since the start of the second round of the 2016 NPFL season, and Tamen Medrano said that clinching the NPFL title will be a perfect way to reward club owner, Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, for his support. “Winning the league will be a huge accomplishment for us, our careers and to be part of the history of the club. “It will also be a perfect reward for the president because he has invested a lot in the team this season. “Most importantly, winning the league will mean a lot to the people of Anambra State.’’ Iheanacho Alex Iwobi was credited with two assists as Arsenal won 4-1 at Hull City. It looked like Iwobi had scored his first league goal for the season when Arsenal went in front after 17 minutes, but the goal was later credited to Alexi Sanchez with Iwobi the provider. Iwobi also assisted in Theo Walcott’s goal after 55 minutes. Ahmed Musa was an unused sub as champions Leicester City thrashed promoted Burnley 3-0. over from the aging elite athletes.. Commodore Bello made the call in Lagos Friday, at a press conference to usher in the 2016 Chief of Naval Staff Swimming competition. He stated that the swimming championship would begin on Thursday, September 22nd to <strong>Sunday</strong> 25th, at the Teslim Balogun Stadium swimming pool,Surulere. In line with the new thinking of ‘catching them young’, Bello stated that this year’s championship would be involving swimmers from both the primary and secondary schools who will compete in the junior category. “We will be having competitions in the junior Ighalo continued from B/P their opening four games including an Odion Ighalo inspired comeback from 2- 0 down to beat West Ham 4-2 in their last league outing. Mazzarri is expected to retain much of the starting XI that won at the London Stadium. The win over West Ham was a big result for Watford, which saw Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo got back on the goal trail. Watford’s attacking prowess is provided by Ighalo and Deeney, two strikers who offer completely different tactical threats. Deeney is famous for holding up the ball and playing back-to-goal while Ighalo, a United fan, runs beyond him and tries to angle on goal. Both players are incredibly physical and adept in the air, which allows Watford to create goals from wide areas. In and senior categories, for the first time in the history of the competition,” he said, pointing out that teams were also being expected from States, the armed forces, tertiary institutions,Clubs,etc in the senior category. While justifying the introduction of the junior category, President of the Nigeria Aquatic Federation, Fatai Williams said, “we felt we have not been fair to the junior swimmers who were made to compete side by side the seniors. No matter how good they were, they could not compete favourably with their seniors. Now they have been given a chance to compete among themselves. This will bring out the best in them.” addition, Ighalo and Deeney’s prolific goalscoring is Watford’s claim to a Premier League place, and it showed last season- in the Europa League positions when Ighalo was scoring goals, they finished 13th when Ighalo went on a massive scoring drought. Etienne Capoue has made a big change from the end of last season. They were getting predictable because it was almost like they didn’t have a chance when Deeney and Ighalo weren’t at it, but Capoue is giving them a little bit extra now. Wayne Rooney, Antonio Valencia and Luke Shaw return to Mourinho’s matchday squad. The trio were rested for Thursday’s Europa League tie at Feyenoord, with the latter not risked after complaining of a tight hamstring following the derby defeat to Manchester City. C M YK
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